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作者：Stan, Mihaela; Vermeulen, Freek
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; London Business School
摘要：We analyze longitudinal data on British fertility clinics to examine the impact of selection at the gate, i.e., the attempts of organizations to improve the success rate of their output by selecting promising cases as input. In contrast to what might be expected, we argue that more stringent input selection is likely to lead to lower overt performance compared with those firms that admit difficult cases, because the latter develop steeper learning curves. That is, difficult cases enable greate...
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作者：Natividad, Gabriel
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Organizations that enjoy some slack are believed to make good use of it in their strategic decisions. Using panel data on firms in the U.S. film distrihution industry between 1985 and 2007, this article examines how financial slack affects the volume of new product introductions, the competitive strategies for those releases, and their economic performance. Unexpectedly successful sleeper films are exploited as a source of exogenous financial slack in the econometric analysis. The results sugg...
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作者：Negro, Giacomo; Leung, Ming D.
作者单位：Emory University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Literature to date has demonstrated that producers and products spanning multiple categories have inferior market performance. However, two related but distinct explanations exist as to the source of such a discount. One explanation suggests that actual skills are degraded when producers attempt to engage across diverse categories. Another explanation involves perceptual fit to category representations held by an audience as the cause. These two explanations tend to be confounded in archival s...
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作者：Bednar, Michael K.; Boivie, Steven; Prince, Nicholas R.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Arizona
摘要：In this paper we introduce a new antecedent to the strategic change literature by examining the effect of media coverage on the extent of strategic change. Specifically, we examine how negative media coverage may prompt firms to make changes to their resource allocations and then explore how the makeup of the board and firm performance can moderate this relationship. We develop a theoretical framework to explain why media coverage may affect strategic change and then test our theory with a lon...
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作者：Brenner, Barbara; Ambos, Bjoern
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of St Gallen
摘要：The control and coordination of a network of geographically and culturally dispersed subsidiaries is one of the most prominent challenges in international management. However, many empirical findings on the effectiveness of various control mechanisms and combinations thereof are still counterintuitive. This study uses longitudinal case studies and cross-sectional interview data to extend control theory by examining why, how, and in what sequence large multinational firms (MNCs) implement contr...
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作者：Miller, C. Chet; Washburn, Nathan T.; Glick, William H.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Rice University
摘要：Firm performance is one of the most prominent concepts in organizational research. Despite its importance, and despite the many developmental critiques that have appeared over the years, performance continues to be a difficult concept to apply in a scientifically rigorous way. After surfacing three potentially viable approaches for conceptualizing performance, we find that most studies are internally inconsistent in their use of these approaches, a situation that creates substantial difficulty...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Theories of entrepreneurship have 'proposed that entrepreneurs are shaped by contextual influences. This paper examines the social transmission of entrepreneurial behavior across university peers. I propose that peers acquainted at a university increase the probability of an entrepreneurial entry by transmitting information about new opportunities and by reducing the uncertainty associated with entrepreneurship. Based on' unique data on hedge fund foundings between 1979 and 2006, this study do...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Zaheer, Akbar; Hernandez, Exequiel
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：plentiful research suggests that embeddedness in alliance networks influences firms' innovativeness. This research, however, has mostly overlooked the fact that interorganizational ties are themselves embedded within larger institutional contexts that can shape the effects of networks on organizational outcomes. We address this gap in the literature by arguing that national institutions affect the extent to which specific network positions, such as brokerage, influence innovation. We explore t...
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作者：Barbulescu, Roxana; Bidwell, Matthew
作者单位：McGill University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper examines differences in the jobs for which men and women apply in order to better understand gender segregation in managerial jobs. We develop and test an integrative theory of why women might apply to different jobs than men. We note that constraints based on gender role socialization may affect three determinants of job applications: how individuals evaluate the rewards provided by different jobs, whether they identify with those jobs, and whether they believe that their applicati...
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作者：Loyd, Denise Lewin; Wang, Cynthia S.; Phillips, Katherine W.; Lount, Robert B., Jr.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Columbia University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：A purported downside of social category diversity is decreased relationship focus (i.e., one's focus on establishing a positive social bond with a coworker). However, we argue that this lack of relationship focus serves as a central mechanism that improves information processing even prior to interaction and, ultimately, decision-making performance in diverse settings. We introduce the construct of premeeting elaboration (i.e., the extent to which individuals consider their own and others' per...
